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| More outrageous treatment of our military. Army 1LT Clint Lorance from Celeste Texas, a 28 year old ground combat platoon leader in the 82d Airborne Division was just sentenced to 20 years in Ft. Leavenworth on two counts of murder. In July 2012, 1LT Lorance ordered the engagement of two Taliban scouts who were tracking his platoon's movements while on a patrol in Kandahar province, a platoon that had recently experienced losses, including the previous Platoon Leader. According to our ridiculous Rules of Engagement, soldiers in a combat zone are told to hold their fire unless there is evidence of hostile action or direct hostile intent. I spent two and a half years in southern Afghanistan, and we all knew the Taliban utilized fighters on motorcycles and cell phones as scout/trackers. If there are enemy combatants reporting your patrol movements in order to facilitate an attack, how is that not hostile intent? CPT William Miller, the government prosecutor, said1LT Lorance "used his rank and position to harass, intimidate, threaten, and murder Afghans." What an incredible dilemma for our men and women in combat: fight and kill the enemy and be sent to prison. Or be killed by the enemy and be denied your death gratuity benefits. This is utter BS and I implore true Americans, and veterans, to melt down the White House, DoD, and Department of the Army phone lines and email. |
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This is an issue that I THOUGHT had been taken care of. This isn't the first time (if it was a mistake) or the last time that Afghans tracking our troops will be engaged. If the ROE are this tight then we're expecting perfection in the sloppiest of human endeavours.
There has to be more to this story.
Remember the Left wing human rights activists will be the first up against the wall when the barbarians takeover!
ReplyDeleteA while back while the UK was in Iraq a story did the rounds of a battalion deploying to Basra. Somebody, it changes with who tells the story between a civilian and a RMP, were looking over the battalion's equipment and spotted two sniper rifles. The battalion was ordered not to take them as sniping was offensive. The QM removed the rifles and then when the "somebody" had gone put them back.
The West will lose if we continue to be hamstrung by Leftist thinking.
There definitely is more to the story.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.wral.com/fort-bragg-officer-s-court-martial-on-murder-charges-begins/12723015/